The Pardoner’s Tale, as rap

Baba Brinkman has recast the Pardoner’s Tale from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales as a rap song, illustrated by Erik Brinkman. It actually works very well.

You can read the original in modern or Middle English.

Author: Milan

In the spring of 2005, I graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in International Relations and a general focus in the area of environmental politics. Between 2005 and 2007 I completed an M.Phil in IR at Wadham College, Oxford. I worked for five years for the Canadian federal government, including completing the Accelerated Economist Training Program, and then completed a PhD in Political Science at the University of Toronto in 2023.

5 thoughts on “The Pardoner’s Tale, as rap”

  1. That’s fantastic! Apparently there’s a cheesy rap version of Wordsworth’s “Daffodils” floating around on YouTube somewhere too, though I’ve seen it and that, unfortunately, doesn’t work so well.

    Hope Ottawa’s treating you well so far. I need to catch up on reading your blog more fully.

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